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020			_a9781681376448 _q(paperback)
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092			_aWARNER, E. _bW283
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100	1		_aWarner, Marina, _d1946- _eauthor. _937788
245	1	0	_aEsmond and Ilia : _ban unreliable memoir / _cMarina Warner ; with vignettes by Sophie Herxheimer.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York Review Books, _c[2021]
300			_a416 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 391-395) and index.
505	0		_aPart I 1944-1946: From Italy to England -- Magari -- Two Diamond Rings -- The Box Brownie -- A Hatbox -- Some Books She Brought With Her -- A Bundle of German Marks -- Brogues -- Nasturtium Sandwiches -- Postscript -- Part II 1947: To Egypt -- King Faruq's Bookplate -- The Rankers' Club Bridge Book -- The Cemetery at Rayol -- A Bill of Lading -- Part III 1947-1949: In Cairo -- Malesh -- Early memory i: Hoopoes -- A Record Collection, Early memory ii: Lice -- An Egyptian Cigarette Tin, Early memory iii: Being painted -- The Little Girl in the Picture, Early memory iv: My fairy doll -- A Pocket Dictionary, Early memory v: At the Great Pyramid -- A Powder Compact, Early memory vi: Learning things -- Part IV 1950-1951: Balm in Gilead -- Early memory vii: Being ill -- An Old Map, Early memory viii: 'Tiger' -- A Silver Photograph Frame -- Part V 1952: Revolution -- Early memory ix: The burned-out bookshop -- The Cairo Fire -- Shabti.
520			_a"Esmond and Ilia follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs. Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith's. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean. Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warner's parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warner's parents, friends, and associates are still restlessly wandering"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aWarner, Esmond, _d1907-1982.
600	1	0	_aWarner, Ilia Terzulli.
650		0	_aBritish _zEgypt _zCairo _vBiography.
650		0	_aBooksellers _zEgypt _zCairo _vBiography.
650		0	_aSpouses _zEgypt _zCairo _vBiography.
651		0	_aCairo (Egypt) _xSocial life and customs _y20th century.
650		0	_aWar brides _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _9257562
610	2	0	_aW.H. Smith & Son _xEmployees _vBiography.
651		0	_aCairo (Egypt) _vBiography.
700	1		_aHerxheimer, Sophie, _econtributing author. _9149590
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